Scholar
Carlos Oliver
Google Scholar ID: UnTr7qIAAAAJ
Assistant Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Computer Science Vanderbilt University
Citations & Impact
Citations
337
H-index
11
i10-index
12
Publications
20
Co-authors
25
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- RNAmigos2, an AI-assisted RNA small molecule discovery tool, published in Nature Communications.
- GMSM accepted at ICML 2024 Workshop on Differentiable Almost Everything.
- Tim Kucera won the Max Planck Junior Scientist Award for his work on ProteinShake!
- Major update to RNAmigos2 preprint.
- Paper on structure and function aware substitution matrices appears in RECOMB 2024 proceeding.
- A letter in support of Prof. Provost and of academic freedom.
- Book chapter on using rnaglib for RNA function prediction on ArXiV [ArXiV].
- Preprint on injecting structural language to large protein language models posted [ArXiV].
- PhD student, Luis Wyss joins Molecular Pattern Mining Group. Welcome Luis.
- Paper on conditional structure-aware substitution matrices accepted at RECOMB 2024! Preprint coming soon.
Research Experience
- Led the Molecular Pattern Mining Project Group at the Department of Machine Learning and Systems Biology at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry.
Education
- Previously, he was a postdoc at ETH Zurich and worked in the labs of Jérôme Waldispühl and William L. Hamilton during his PhD studies in Computer Science.
Background
- Fields of study include RNA and protein computational structural biology, structural bioinformatics, network motif mining, graph representation learning, and drug discovery. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, and Department of Computer Science at Vanderbilt University, and a core member of the Center for Applied AI in Protein Dynamics.
Miscellany
- Interests include providing consulting services for AI in computational biology; Former Lead Scientist in Residence at Next AI; Member of The Heterodox Academy; Reviewing for various journals; Developed software tools like rnaglib and proteinshake.
